making opencart better

Demos and Page Load Times

There are three different demos. All three are hosting the same fictitious ecommerce site that sells movies. Using an Amazon AWS dataset, we loaded 4330 different movies into 21 different categories. All are running on the same 512MB digitalocean VPS.

There’s not much difference on the first page load, as both of the improvements need the cache populated to work. The first page load is a bit higher for the improvements, as they have to store data in the cache on that first load. However, the benefits after the cache is primed are obvious.